Tashi Tsering, author of the autobiographical “The Struggle for Modern Tibet” has died in Lhasa at the age of 85. He was born a peasant, and illiterate, but later studied abroad, returning to Tibet during the Cultural Revolution, where he was imprisoned, charged as an American spy. After his release he built schools for poor children in and around Lhasa. He also compiled a Tibetan-Chinese-English dictionary.